After a controversy over misspelled plaques in the name of the famous physicist Pierre Currie, the Carcassonne town hall decided to auction off two “
Avenue Pierre Curry
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signs
, for the benefit of the League Against Cancer.
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The mayor of Carcassonne, Gérard Larrat, wanted to transform
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the error which was initially intended to pay homage to the French physicist Pierre Curie,
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into a useful buzz ,
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wrote the town hall in a press release published on its website.
The sale is scheduled to last from March 8 to 31.
At the end of February, municipal employees fixed two plaques defaced with the name of the Nobel Prize winner in physics, triggering mockery and criticism on social networks.